the Russian army shows “first signs of exhaustion” on the southern front, says a Ukrainian journalist

Russian army soldiers “are forced to withdraw little by little” from the southern front in Ukraine, where they show “first signs of exhaustion”, declared Sunday September 24 on franceinfo Tetyana Ogarkova, journalist and head of the international department at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center. According to a Ukrainian general interviewed by CNN, the Kiev army has indeed pierced Moscow’s first defense lines in Verbove, in the Zaporizhia region, as part of its counter-offensive in the South and East of the country. .

“It is a line of defense reinforced by Russian troops for many months, so this means a certain success for the Ukrainian troops”says journalist Tetyana Ogarkova. “If we manage to break this line of defense, the path will be open to” the localities of “Tokmak and Melitopol”the objective being to “cut this corridor” between the territories occupied by Russia and annexed Crimea. “If the Ukrainians can do this, it will radically change the course of this war.”

And if Tetyana Ogarkova is aware that between now and “break all front lines, there is a way”Today, “we can speak of a certain parity between Russian and Ukrainian artillery, which was not at all the case only a year ago”. “This progress is very slow and very difficult”but they are there, according to the Ukrainian journalist.